POTENTIAL FUNDING SOURCES FOR MD-PhD STUDENTS
Please visit the websites for deadlines, qualifications, and funding applications.
Two categories of possible funding sources for MD-PhD students are listed below: private, non-federal
sources and federal sources. Students are encouraged to check with their MSTP Administrator and
Graduate Program Administrator to be sure funding policies are followed and to apply for funding
appropriate for your scientific discipline.
Both lists are appropriate sources for students who are supported by non-federal funds or who are
attending non-MSTP funded programs.
MSTP-funded students may or may not be able to use either source. Some institutions allow
students to receive an F30 or F31 while they are in graduate school and not supported by the MSTP
training grant.
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LIST A (private, non-federal funds) is for students who are paid from MSTP grants and are
unable to apply for an F30 or F31, but who wish to have additional support during their PhD
training years (e.g., lab supplies, books, conferences, etc.).
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LIST B (federal sources) is for students who are paid from MSTP grants AND whose
institutions DO offer the option of applying for F30 or F31 during their graduate training.
o Students who are paid from an MSTP training grant may not receive F30 or F31
grants that would pay them at the same time they receive MSTP funds.
o In some institutions, if a student is awarded an F30 or F31, they must be terminated
from the MSTP grant and the total months of support from the MSTP grant must be
deducted from the F30 or F31 award.
LIST A
The following list of sources can be used by
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Students who are supported by MSTP grants and whose institutions DO NOT allow them
to apply for an F30 or F31 during graduate school.
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Students who are supported by other non-federal sources.
American Association of University Women
http://www.aauw.org/ or http://www.aauw.org/education/fga/awards/index.cfm
American Cancer Society
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/RES/RES_5_1.asp?sitearea=RES
American Chemical Society, Division of Analytical Chemistry: Pfizer Graduate Travel
Awards in Analytical Chemistry
http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content
or
http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_FUNDING&node_id=136&
use_sec=false&__uuid=a17755b8-20df-4e5d-adb3-870ca268c72f
American Diabetes Association
www.diabetes.org
American Federation for Aging Research Scholarship
http://www.afar.org/grants.html – Applications accepted annually in December.
American Heart Association Regional Affiliates Predoctoral Fellowship
http://www.americanheart.org or http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=9713
American Physiological Society
http://www.the-aps.org/ or www.the-aps.org/awards/other.htm
American Society for Microbiology Robert Watkins Graduate Fellowship for minorities
http://www.asm.org
http://www.asm.org/asm/?option=com_content&view=article&id=6278&Itemid=266
American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
http://www.aspet.org/public/awards/awards_fellowships.html
Boston University Women in Science
http://www.bu.edu/chemistry/buwic/resources/fellowship/
Columbia University - list of internal and external funding opportunities
or
http://www.columbia.edu/
Community of Science Funding Opportunities Database
http://fundingopps2.cos.com/
Cornell University Graduate Fellowship Notebook
http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/Student/GRFN/
Department of Defense National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
http://www.asee.org/ndseg/
Ford Foundation Dissertation Diversity Fellowships
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/fordfellowships/forddiss.html
Fulbright Program Institute of International Education for studies abroad
http://www.iie.org
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Medical Fellows Program
http://www.hhmi.org/grants/
Josephine de Karman Predoctoral Fellowship
http://www.dekarman.org/Qualifications.aspx
L’Oreal Foundation Women in Science Predoctoral Fellowships
http://www.lorealusa.com/_en/_us/ or
http://www.lorealusa.com/_en/_us/index.aspx?direct1=00008&direct2=00008/00001 Applications
accepted annually in October.
NASA Individual Predoctoral Fellowship
http://education.nasa.gov/edprograms/fellowgrants/index.html National Science Foundation Individual
Predoctoral Fellowship http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=6201
NATO Predoctoral Fellowship With Partner Nations
http://www.nato.int/science/
Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
www.pdsoros.org
Proposal Central
https://proposalcentral.altum.com/
ProposalCENTRAL is an e-grantmaking website shared by many government, non-profit, and private
grant-making organizations. Over twenty thousand applicants and reviewers interact electronically with
the grant-makers that are members of ProposalCENTRAL.
Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation Fellowship
http://www.sarnoffendowment.org/index.cfm
UNCF•Merck Graduate Science Research Dissertation Fellowships
http://www.uncf.org/merck/
LIST B
The following list of sources can be used by
•
Students who are supported by MSTP grants and whose institutions offer the option of
applying for an F30 or F31 during graduate school.
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Students who are supported by other non-federal sources.
NIH Predoctoral Fellowship Awards for Students with Disabilities (F31)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-00-068.html
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral Fellows (F31)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-04-032.html
Participating Organizations
National Institutes of Health (NIH), (http://www.nih.gov/)
Components of Participating Organizations
National Institute on Aging (NIA), http://www.nia.nih.gov National Institute on Alcohol Abuse
and Alcoholism (NIAAA), http://www.niaaa.nih.gov National Institute of Biomedical Imaging
and Bioengineering (NIBIB),
http://www.nibib.nih.gov
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD),
http://www.nidcd.nih.gov National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), http://www.nida.nih.gov
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), http://www.nimh.nih.gov National Institute of
Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS),
http://www.ninds.nih.gov Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), http://ods.od.nih.gov
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral
MD-PhD Fellows (F30) http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-05-151.html
Participating Organizations
National Institutes of Health (NIH), (http://www.nih.gov/)
Components of Participating Organizations
National Institute on Aging (NIA/NIH), (http://www.nia.nih.gov/) National Institute on Alcohol
Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA/NIH), (http://www.niaaa.nih.gov) National Institute on
Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD/NIH), (http://www.nidcd.nih.gov)
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA/NIH), (http://www.nida.nih.gov) National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS/NIH), (http://www.niehs.nih.gov) National Institute of
Mental Health (NIMH/NIH), (http://www.nimh.nih.gov) National Institute of Neurological
Disorders and Stroke (NINDS/NIH), (http://www.ninds.nih.gov) Office of Dietary Supplements
(ODS/NIH), (http://ods.od.nih.gov)
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral
Fellowships (F31) to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-481.htm/
Participating Organization
National Institutes of Health (NIH), (http://www.nih.gov/) Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality (AHRQ), (http://www.ahrq.gov)
Components of Participating Organizations
National Cancer Institute (NCI), (http://www.nci.nih.gov/) National Center for Complementary
and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), (http://www.nccam.nih.gov/) National Center for
Research Resources (NCRR), (http://www.ncrr.nih.gov/) National Eye Institute (NEI),
(http://www.nei.nih.gov/) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI),
(http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov) National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI),
(http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/) National Institute on Aging (NIA), (http://www.nia.nih.gov/)
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), (http://www.niaaa.nih.gov /)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), (http://www.niaid.nih.gov/)
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS),
(http://www.niams.nih.gov/) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
(NIBIB), (http://www.nibib.nih.gov/) National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development (NICHD), (http://www.nichd.nih.gov/) National Institute on Deafness and Other
Communication Disorders (NIDCD), (http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/) National Institute of Dental
and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), (http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/) National Institute of Diabetes
and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), (http://www.niddk.nih.gov/) National Institute on
Drug Abuse (NIDA), (http://www.nida.nih.gov/) National Institute of Environmental Health
Sciences (NIEHS), (http://www.niehs.nih.gov) National Institute of General Medical Sciences
(NIGMS), (http://www.nigms.nih.gov) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH),
(http://www.nimh.nih.gov/) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS),
(http://www.ninds.nih.gov/) National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR),
(http://www.ninr.nih.gov/) Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), (http://www.ods.od.nih.gov)
Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Program for NIGMS MARC Predoctoral Fellowships (F31) (for
minority groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences)
http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-03-114.html